During the 1990s, a feisty US Congresswoman is kidnapped by Shining Path guerillas and held for ransom high in the Andes. She spends most of her time in the naked embrace (as a relief from the cold) of an unusal political prisoner who has been there for years and for whom there will be no ransom. This fast paced political thriller in the tradition of Robert Ludlum, Tom Trevanian and Alistair MacLean introduces a new character to the genre. An Army Airborne veteran and an ostracized CIA drop-out, Lone Wolf is of Apache descent and uses his genes to supplement his training and hires himself out as a high stakes rescuer of hostages when negotiation is no longer an option.